Group HR Advisor
Office based in Poole, BH17
Working for a successful growing business, with circa 150 employees. The wider group of business units have 650 employees.
The Group HR Adviser is a key member of the Human Resources team, responsible for providing professional HR support, guidance, and advice to managers and employees across the Company. This role helps to ensure the consistent application of HR policies, practices, and procedures while promoting a positive workplace culture and fostering employee engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing employee relations casework including dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, retirement, and redundancy.
- Leading the recruitment process, including writing job descriptions, and preparing interview questions, arranging, and conducting interviews and providing feedback.
- Administration of employee-related paperwork, such as employment contracts, new starter packs and formal letters in line with compliance laws.
- Provide on-boarding documents in advance to new employees, organise and conduct employee inductions.
- Managing the whole employee lifecycle including offboarding
- Update and maintain the HRIS system with employee data changes and run reports as requested.
- Co-ordinate the administration of various Company Benefit schemes, to ensure they are effectively monitored, and information is kept up to date.
- Monitor probation deadlines, ensuring managers are following the probation policy and providing support and advice where needed, complete probation letters
- Facilitating and advising on all sickness absence and other absence including all statutory absences.
- Support the HR team on all matters from a HR administration perspective
- Holiday and absence monitoring.
- Assist in managing the implementation of specific HR projects, procedures, and guidelines to help align the workforce with the strategic goals of the organisation.
- Apply HR and business knowledge evidencing appropriate decision-making skills.
- Providing all payroll related information.
- Organisation of social events
- Any ad hoc duties as required.
Attributes Required
Professionalism – Demonstrating competence and continuous learning, upholding high standards in behaviour and performance.
Communication skills – managing diverse personalities and viewpoints. Consequently, emotional intelligence (empathy, integrity, fairness, confidentiality), the ability to build relationships and collaborate with others, encouraging open communication and teamwork is vital.
Trust and Confidentiality – As a key member of the HR team, you will interface with various stakeholders on a regular basis. You will become a trusted confidante with a positive, flexible and adaptable approach.
Accountability – Taking responsibility for actions and outcomes and being transparent in process and communication.
Organisational skills – personal efficiency, time management skills and the ability to prioritise competing demands are key with the ability to remain calm under pressure.
Industry expertise – A working knowledge of employment law issues, best practice processes for disciplinaries, redundancies and payroll are required, as well as experience of employee relations.
Commercial acumen – Demonstrates initiative and contributes ideas with a pragmatic approach to problem solving without cutting corners.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills required
- CIPD Qualified would be advantageous or proven experience
- Experience working in fast paced environment
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills - verbal and written
- Respects the importance of confidentiality
- Rapport Builder, confident & self-motivated.
- Strong team player
- Ability to engage with employees at all levels
- Full UK Driving Licence
